{"id":45711,"date":"2022-06-23T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/new-zealand-records-largest-ever-bleaching-of-sea-sponges"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:24:49","slug":"new-zealand-records-largest-ever-bleaching-of-sea-sponges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45711","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand records largest ever bleaching of sea sponges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say tens of millions of sponges may have been affected by protracted marine heatwave<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is experiencing the largest bleaching of sea sponges ever recorded, scientists say, after extreme ocean temperatures turned millions of the aquatic creatures white.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery comes after researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/bleached-sea-sponges-found-in-new-zealand-waters-for-first-time\">raised the alarm in May<\/a>, when sea sponges off New Zealand\u2019s southern coastline were found bleached for the first time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/new-zealand-records-largest-ever-bleaching-of-sea-sponges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say tens of millions of sponges may have been affected by protracted marine heatwaveNew Zealand is experiencing the largest bleaching of sea sponges ever recorded, scientists say, after extreme ocean temperatures turned millions of the aqua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,468,56,467,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-oceans","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45711\/revisions\/45712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}